ANTHONY
what? does everyone have to go?
TROY
no you don't HAVE to go. you GET to go.
ALEX
but what if we don't want to go.
TROY
why wouldn't you want to go?
ANTHONY
because we'd have to get dressed.
ALEX
yeah, the great thing about weekends is you don't have to get dressed.
TROY
boys. this is the oldest stuff you will ever see. it's worth getting dressed for.
ANTHONY
it's not the oldest stuff we will see. we live with you. you fart dust.
ALEX
ha! yeah, we live with you dad. good one anthony.
i think we have soundly left the era where my kids hold me on that my-father-can-do-no-wrong pedestal.
and a note not about this conversation but about the king tut exhibit itself. i've seen egyptian artifacts before but this time, for some reason, it all felt very wrong to me. i mean why do we have the right to go pillage this guy's tomb and then drag his stuff (and him) all over the globe so people can gawk at him and his stuff. further, i love how these guys speak so derisively of the 'grave-robbers' who disturbed the tomb before they found it and how unfortunate that was (and how disrespectful they were by just throwing stuff around and upsetting things). i gotta say i see way less distance between these so-called 'smarmy grave-robbers' and these more 'high-brow operations'. you need more than a tweed jacket and smoking pipe to change the net result of what is going on here.
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